The Reformation of the English Parish Church
The Reformation of the English Parish Church

Author: Robert Whiting

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-03-18

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139486667

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In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first ever full-scale investigation of the dramatic changes experienced by the English parish church during the English Reformation. By drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence, including court records, wills and church wardens' accounts, and by examining the material remains themselves - such as screens, fonts, paintings, monuments, windows and other artefacts - found in churches today, Robert Whiting reveals how, why and by whom these ancient buildings were transformed. He explores the reasons why Catholics revered the artefacts found in churches as well as why these objects became the subject of Protestant suspicion and hatred in subsequent years. This richly illustrated account sheds new light on the acts of destruction as well as the acts of creation that accompanied religious change over the course of the 'long' Reformation.

Memory and the English Reformation
Memory and the English Reformation

Author: Alexandra Walsham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1108829996

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Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Local Responses to the English Reformation
Local Responses to the English Reformation

Author: Robert Whiting

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1998-05-20

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1349264873

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This major new study re-examines one of the most controversial issues of early modern history: the impact of the English Reformation upon the English people. It represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach. Drawing on the author's own research in church art as well as in written records such as wills and parish accounts, and evaluating the findings of other recent historians, it forcefully challenges several of the currently fashionable interpretations of this crucial era.

English Reformations
English Reformations

Author: Christopher Haigh

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0198221622

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English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explorethe religious views and practices of ordinary English people. With the benefit of hindsight, other historians have traced the course of the Reformation as a series of events inescapably culminating in the creation of the English Protestant establishment. Dr Haigh sets out to recreate the sixteenthcentury as a time of excitement and insecurity, with each new policy or ruler causing the reversal of earlier religious changes. This is a scholarly and stimulating book, which challenges traditional ideas about the Reformation and offers a powerful and convincing alternative analysis.